13 May
1997
13 May
'97
11:31 a.m.
Tim Shoppa (referring to Micro RSTS):
Ahhh. I guessed wrong. I had thought that the strange Pro I/O
was what the Micro referred to, but obviously not.
As far as I
know RSTS was never ported to anything except the PDP-11
at least not a port that was marketed. My guess is that these are
for one of the DEC PRO machines. These machines had the small
LSI-11 implementation. At any rate, you're right, they're not
for the Rainbow.
RSTS was never released for the Pro's. Porting an operating system
to the Pro is made difficult by the fact that it's I/O subsystem
is entirely different than the more traditional PDP-11's. If any of your -11's have a RQDX1/2/3, then all you
need to do
is add a floppy to the controller. RX33 floppy drives (TEAC's
with the proper jumper setting) will also read and write RX50's.
Unfortunately, I don't have one of those cards. It's nice to
know they'll take ordinary drives, though.
Brian L. Stuart